Hsiu-Chin Lin, Colleen van Lent
In this paper we present our approach of improving the traditional alpha-beta search process for strategic board games by modifying the method in two ways: 1) forgoing the evaluation of leaf nodes that are not terminal states and 2) employing a utility table that stores the utility for subsets of board configurations. In this paper we concentrate our efforts on the game of Connect Four. Our results have shown significant speed-up, as well as a framework that relaxes common agent assumptions in game search. In addition, it allows game designers to easily modify the agent's strategy by changing the goal from dominance to interaction.
Subjects: 1.8 Game Playing; 7.2 Software Agents
Submitted: Feb 17, 2008
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